Introduction to the text Margaret Fuller is fairly well-known as an American Transcendentalist thinker who was the friend and contemporary of both Emerson and Thoreau. In some ways she was the necessary philosophical mediatrix between these two men, and in a larger sense, she served to close an essential link in the chain of American artistic and spiritual heritage itself. To speak particularly of Emerson and Thoreau as the figureheads of the Transcendental movement: the former’s lofty, high-cultured spiritual humanism all to easily repelled the latter’s more rustic and Romantic naturalism. Indeed, at times these outlooks related almost as two adverse magnetic poles and a reconciling force appeared necessary to effect their synthesis. “Across the pond,” so to speak, S. T. Coleridge had suggested that:
Thanks for sharing! I read a biography of Fuller awhile back and really appreciated her work. It was great to read the Credo - I especially appreciated her description of how faith’s relation to our experience of the inner world is analogous to sight’s experience of the outer world. It’s a helpful picture...
Phenomenal. Wow- I am left without words after reading Fuller's credo and will read it time and time again. She is beyond intelligent, exquisitely beautiful and a bit rebellious in a graceful way - everything that a woman ought to want to strive towards. Actually every human. Thank you Max. I know you will enjoy your family gathering in WI. Should be a beautiful time for celebrating - autumn was my favorite season there (born & raised in Wisconsin), miss it very much.
Thanks for sharing! I read a biography of Fuller awhile back and really appreciated her work. It was great to read the Credo - I especially appreciated her description of how faith’s relation to our experience of the inner world is analogous to sight’s experience of the outer world. It’s a helpful picture...
Phenomenal. Wow- I am left without words after reading Fuller's credo and will read it time and time again. She is beyond intelligent, exquisitely beautiful and a bit rebellious in a graceful way - everything that a woman ought to want to strive towards. Actually every human. Thank you Max. I know you will enjoy your family gathering in WI. Should be a beautiful time for celebrating - autumn was my favorite season there (born & raised in Wisconsin), miss it very much.
thank you, Leilani